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Alex Murdaugh—who was sentenced successful March to beingness successful situation for murdering his woman Maggie Murdaugh and lad Paul Murdaugh—was erstwhile again indicted connected aggregate national transgression charges.
Alex Murdaugh Sentenced to Life successful Prison for Murdering Wife and Son
Alex Murdaugh is facing caller transgression charges.
A national expansive assemblage has indicted the erstwhile South Carolina lawyer—who was recovered blameworthy of murdering his woman Maggie Murdaugh and lad Paul Murdaugh successful March—on 22 fiscal fraud-related charges that included wire fraud, slope fraud, conspiracy and wealth laundering.
The May 24 indictment alleged that Murdaugh took portion successful 3 separate schemes to get wealth and spot from his clients. One complaint successful peculiar accused Murdaugh of conspiring with a idiosyncratic wounded attorney in bid to siphon colony funds successful the decease of his family's longtime housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, who died successful 2018 aft an alleged "trip and autumn accident" astatine the Murdaugh's home, per NBC News. The outlet stated that Murdaugh is accused of ordering the Beaufort region lawyer to constitute blank checks using the colony funds that totaled to almost $3.5 million for his personal use and not Satterfield's estate arsenic promised.
U.S. Attorney Adair Boroughs went connected to explicate wherefore charges were brought upon Murdaugh.
"Trust successful our ineligible strategy begins with spot successful its lawyers," helium said successful a connection the aforesaid day. "South Carolinians crook to lawyers erstwhile they are astatine their astir vulnerable, and successful our state, those who maltreatment the public's spot and enrich themselves by fraud, theft, and self-dealing volition beryllium prosecuted to the fullest grade of the law."
Murdaugh's lawyers, Jim Griffin and Richard "Dick" Harpootlian shared successful their ain connection that their lawsuit is fully cooperating with the national probe and "anticipate that the charges brought contiguous volition beryllium rapidly resolved without a trial."
As part of a suit accusing Murdaugh of beingness security fraud successful Satterfield's death, his lawyers revealed earlier this month that Murdaugh "invented the captious facts" surrounding her "trip and autumn accident" successful bid to person millions of dollars successful the settlement. Nautilus Insurance Co. has since filed filed a suit alleging it was defrauded, per NBC News.
"No dogs were progressive successful the autumn of Gloria Satterfield connected February 2, 2018," the attorney's said successful the ineligible filing. The filing added that aft the housekeeper's death, Alex "invented Ms. Satterfield's purported connection that dogs caused her to autumn to unit his insurers to marque a colony payment."
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These caller charges travel 2 months aft Murdaugh received consecutive beingness sentences for the execution of his woman and son on March 3. A time anterior to his sentencing, a assemblage recovered that Murdaugh was blameworthy connected 2 counts of execution and 2 counts of possession of a limb portion committing a convulsive transgression successful the slaying of Maggie, 52, and Paul, 22, astatine their Moselle property connected June 7, 2021.
Murdaugh pled not blameworthy to each charges and testified during the six-week trial that helium "didn't sprout my woman oregon my lad immoderate time" portion taking the stand. (Read each of his testimony bombshells here.)
Per NBC News, the parent and lad duo died connected their 1,800-acre property, near the canine kennels, with Maggie being shot with a firearm successful the abdomen, limb and caput and Paul suffering gunshot wounds to the chest, enarthrosis and head.
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